Improvement in treating flax and hemp to matfe them resemble cotton



' To'all whom it may concern: I

Be it knownthat I, JOHN P, GoMLY, of Day- UNITED STATES PAT NT" OFFICE.)

JOHN P; COMLY, or DAYTON, OHIO.

' IMPROVEMFVJNTY m TREATING FLA-X AND HEMP TO'MA'KEIHEM RESEM'B'LE COTTON.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent Nil-34.619, dated March 4, 1862 too, in the county of Montgomery, in theState Mode of Oottonizing Flax; and I ,do hereby declare that the following is a. fulland exact description thereof. 7

The nature of my invention consists in cutting the flax or hemp straw'betore itis broken, so as toseparate the seed end from the residue of the stock and divide the fiber into equal,

or nearly equal, lengths, suitable for spinning by ordinary cotton-spinning machinery, which will generally be from one to three inches, but may be of any other length required, after which the fiber is to be freed from the woody part by a picker or any known machinery used for separatiugthe wood or straw from the fiber.

By this process the fibrous material is more readily cleaned, and at less cost, and with less waste than by other process heretofore used or known, and a better mat'erialis produced I into which the fiber is divided and the more residue of the stock. Itwill be perceived that my invention relates entire'ly to the mode or process, irrespecperfect separation of'the seed ends vfrom the' of Ohio, have invented a new and Improved tive of the apparatus or appliances required I for its consummation. A detailed description of the mode of operation is hence deemed un- "necessary.

What'l claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is- Cutting flax or hemp straw before it is broken, so. as to separate the seed ends from the residue of the stock and divide the fiberinto equal, or nearly equal lengths suitable for spinning by ordinary cotton-spinning ma,- ohinery, as and for the purposeherein specified; f JOHN PyGOMLY. Witnesses:

H. W. SMITH, 'JoHN INGRAM.

by reasou of the more equal or uniform lengths 

